Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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cap. 111] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 159 permanent letters patent and instructions, leaving the Governor merely to receive a commission. referring to the letters patent and instructions. A draft of those suggested for Canada was enclosed and suggestions for amendment asked. The form proposed was not a happy one: it was a common form for any Colony including in the letters patent provision for an Executive Council, grants of land, appointments of judges and other officers, pardons, dis- missals of officers, appointments of deputies, summoning, proroguing and dissolving Parliament, and the granting of marriage licences, of letters of administration, probates of wills, and the care of idiots and lunatics and their estates. The instructions contained provisions for the Executive Council, including the duty of the Governor presiding, the keeping of minutes, and the duty of consulting, which was based on the Newfoundland form, with power to differ, and requiring consultation only if the matter was not urgent or not trivial, and if consultation would not be prejudicial to the service. Then clauses forbade the mixing up of different matters in one law, gave a list of reserved Bills, instructed him as to sending home journals and seeing as to laws having marginal abstracts, regulated the power of pardon, and required the Governor to promote religion and education among the natives, and to send home a blue-book. The sending of such a form was in many ways foolish, for it was clearly a Crown Colony form, and was quite at variance with the form issued even to Lord Dufferin in 1872, but the criticisms which were made upon it resulted in the removal of the numerous antiquated forms presented by it. But the most important part of the representation of the Minister of Justice was his criticism on the clauses relating State. Later, on the request of the Opposition after Sir J. Macdonald’s Government took office, the further correspondence was made public in Canada; see Sess. Pap., 1879, No. 181. Permanent letters patent were first issued for Canada on Oct. 5, 1878; Newfoundland, March 26, 1876 ; New South Wales, April 29, 1879; Victoria, Feb. 21, 1879; Queensland, April 13, 1877; South Australia, April 28, 1877; Western Australia, Aug. 25, 1890; Tasmania, June 17, 1880; New Zealand, Feb. 21, 1879; Cape, Feb. 26, 1877; Natal, July 20, 1893.

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